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   From: a425couple@hotmail.com   
      
   On 4/9/2020 1:06 PM, Intelligent Party wrote:   
   Re: PERHAPS CONGRESS NEEDS TO STOP ALL DEBT   
      
   >   I for one, need to go into a debt a couple hundred a   
   > month to make ends meet, at the moment.   
      
   You seem to have a unique interpretation of the term,   
   "to make ends meet".   
      
   from   
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_ends_meet   
   make ends meet   
   (idiomatic) To have enough money to cover expenses; to get by   
   financially; to get through the pay period (sufficient to meet the   
   next payday).   
   Translations   
   ±get by financially   
   Etymology   
   Unknown. Perhaps originally referred to the ends of rope meeting,   
   signifying continuity and therefore security and stability. Perhaps   
   shifting later to refer to the attempt at making money last from one pay   
   period to the next (i.e. the ends), thereby leaving no gap or break in   
   the availability of funds   
      
   https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/make-ends-meet   
   to have enough money to buy what you need to live:   
   It’s not easy to make ends meet with a big family, but somehow   
   we manage.   
      
   Or, make the two ends = income & expenses, meet, or equal,   
   the same number.   
      
   If you are going further into debt "a couple hundred a month"   
   then you are not "making your ends meet"!   
      
   Are you wishing to learn to be more successful, or at least   
   informed, or are you sure you know it all, and the rest   
   of the world is wrong?   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)